The Montgomery Theater is located inside San Jose’s WPA-era Civic Auditorium complex, just steps from the Main Stage, Blues/Big Easy Stage and the Tech Interactive at Plaza de César Chavez’s south end.
A member of the game-changing, genre-blurring LA collective the West Coast Get Down, pianist CAMERON GRAVES is taking the modern jazz scene by storm. Cameron’s style was described by his bandmate Kamasi Washington as an “almost unbelievable combination of modal jazz, romantic era European classical music and mathematical death metal.”
Called “one of Mexico’s greatest young talents and vocalists” by KCRW’s José Galvan, Silvana, who is 23 years old, is the new voice of a movement of independent female artists who have characterized Latin Alternative music over the past decade.
Noted as the “new queen of New Orleans Neo-Soul,” vocalist and songwriter Erica Falls credits her unique vintage sound to her childhood growing up in New Orleans’ 9th Ward, where her parents introduced her to Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughn, and Whitney Houston.
This thoughtful collaboration brings together the creative worlds of two visionaries — the silky voice and percussive guitar of Raul Midón and the unique amalgam of sweet melodies, pop-soul hooks, subtle jazz influences, and powerful guitar riffs of Alex Cuba.
San Jose collab RIGHTSTARTER offers a guttural artistic response to this global moment, seeking to illuminate submerged truths, transgress boundaries, subvert expectations and assert denied identities in hostile times. The sound is a dynamic mix of funk, musique concréte, and free jazz.
Praised by Rolling Stone for her “stellar powerhouse vocals,” Grammy-winning singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Judith Hill had the distinct privilege of being one of the final musicians to be mentored by the late Prince, who co-produced her debut album, Back in Time.
